I just wanted an outlet for the euphoria I'm feeling for having finally managed to trap two cats that have eluded me for far too long.
This was a job I started a year ago, where cats had been breeding in a back garden. The problem with jobs in back gardens (as opposed to say in communal gardens of flats, or back alleys, or car parks or industrial estates) is that you need to get the home owners on board and they need to be able to put up with your presence in their house, often for many hours on end.
Anyway last year I managed to trap I think it was 9 adults and I took away around 12 kittens, but one kitten and one female just proved impossible. I think I must have put around 60 hours into just trying to get those two, but failed. Often I would just spend hours (in someone's kitchen) just waiting for them to turn up, and they didn't, or they turned up but wouldn't go in the trap, or one time they both went in the trap but then another one stood on the door so I couldn't close it, and they then both left again.
Added to that the fact that the home owner never answered his phone, or replied to messages, so that arranging to go there was next to impossible, plus he couldn't grasp the need to always put the food in the dummy trap I gave him to get them used to going in it, and it made for a very frustrating job.
It's been one of those jobs that literally has kept me awake at 3 in the morning. It's been at the back (and often at the front) of my mind for months, bugging and worrying me. After all if just one female is left unneutered you may as well not have bothered at all.
There have been dozens of other jobs in between, but this one has never stopped playing on my mind.
Anyway, finally, I just got them both. And both were a bit pregnant but I got them in time. Yay!!!!!